skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making money or not, this kind of service is explicitly forbidden by Southwest.com's Terms of Conditions:

"You may not use Southwest's sites for or in connection with offering any third party product or service not authorized or approved by Southwest. For example, online check-in service providers may not use Southwest web pages to check-in Customers online or attempt to obtain for them a boarding pass in any certain boarding group."

http://www.southwest.com/html/about-southwest/terms-and-cond...

Which sucks, because your product looks really cool. (And I'd forego paying $10 to use your service... which is probably why it's banned. :P)
FYI, ssh-copy-id isn't available on OS X by default. So, it's easiest to just do it by hand.
To be honest I don't think this will stop trolls, or at least not the ones that actually believe what they say. There will be still some trolls that will fill in the correct word in the captcha and say stupid shit in the comment. Asking for someone to think morally for a brief second is not going to stop people. This is "just another captcha" to most.

I don't think it's effective against bots either. If a bot can read the three options it has a 1/3 chance of getting it right (assuming that the bot would choose randomly). In fact from the sample captcha it looks like one of the words is not like the others and therefore you could possibly eliminate that making it a 50:50 chance (again assuming it picks it randomly, that there's an odd one out, and that the odd one out is unrelated to the text above).

Although, I suppose that the idea of the captcha is to show awareness, rather than actually stop spam or trolling. It's neat, but not a great spamkiller.
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Not a serious attempt at implementing the concept. They only seem to have a few different questions in total. About 6.

Also even with a serious question DB, it would be extremely easy to crack, because of the small pool of answer words and the fact that it's always the negative one you're supposed to pick. With such a low entropy problem, some basic ML and it would be over.
This is for folks in SF or staying in SF.
all Dropbox apps require approval. someone from Dropbox actually signed up, reviewed IceBox, and approved it.

we have no intentions of competing with Dropbox. (like that's even possible.) if we get a complaint, we're more than happy to comply.

we love both Dropbox and Amazon Glacier so we decided to pair them. i'm almost certain Dropbox will eventually add a similar feature soon--we may just be beating them to the punch.
My first reaction to this is "that's dumb." But then, I remember a few studies I've heard of. Basically, if people are made to write an essay in favor of a position (like for or against abortion), even if it's one they initially disagree with, their opinions will be measurably more sympathetic to that position afterwards. So maybe this isn't entirely dumb after all.

Obviously, there's a big gap between writing an essay and typing a single word. Supposedly, the trigger was having to consider the reasoning behind a position, which you don't have to do to type just one word. But who knows, maybe the cumulative effect could actually do something.

Note also that this isn't a real captcha, in the traditional sense. It doesn't work by keeping the trolls out. It works by making them slightly less troll-ish, through repeated exposure. While outwardly similar, it's a very different model, and you would not expect any immediate effect.
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What about sociopaths?
man I am out of date. it had been a while since I'd looked! Thanks so much
That's hilarious -- the viros scanner, which is designed to protect the mail server, was what wound up destroying it in the first place.
I think the idea is to let them know that they will almost certainly lose which acts as a deterrent suing in the first place.
You can't put it too deep. The scanner should stop attempting to unzip at a certain depth. Presumably, any file that has more than N depth is malicious and should get flagged, but who knows if the person that configured the scanner did id right?

I've worked with a leading commercial scanner that failed to respect the max depth parameter even when set. It would scan for days before we killed it.
http://zoom.it/ is much older, seems much faster, and you can create your own.
Who will pay for the iOS bill shock problem?
Write a blog post.
I miss Jobs as well. On that we can absolutely agree.
FYI Anyone can see your name, email, and AWS ID/Access Key.

The games on Stripe's CTF were more secure than this site...

EDIT: Looks like it was just patched. Still managed to get a few dozen AWS keys though.
Hi Gexla, since making this post... I've discovered a lot of what you've mentioned here. AWS is definitely overkill for what I'm looking for. The UI is not friendly, the purpose behind it are not even what I'm looking for. I didnt realize AWS was delivering such a raw platform, meaning... 'we provide a machine, you do the rest'. That is not what i am looking for by any means. I will check out rackspace & I am looking into other managed server hosting providers as well. I really appreciate your input and thank you so much for the reply =)
For an open source alternative (and my tool of choice) check out git-annex with s3[1]. joehy has a todo for git-annex and glacier[2] and someone has already submitted the beginings of a patch. When i first heard of Glacier I was excited about the possibilty of using it for a backend to git-annex, but then I read cpercival's discussion of glacier[3,4].

[1] http://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/using_Amazon_S3/

[2] http://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/special_remote_for_amaz...

[3] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-09-04-why-tarsnap-doesn...

[4] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-09-04-thoughts-on-glaci...

EDIT: Removed comment about competition.
Good for him for generating the content and getting the rankings. I don't think it's that competitive though. I launched my site last week and I am on page 2 for the same term.
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I'm in the middle now. I've had several opportunities to work with software developers in their 50's. Without fail, the experience was good.

Work at good companies, and the people you work with will be good.
Go for it!

I've signed up for alerts on my flights to/from TwilioCon next weekend. Don't let me down. ;)
Sure we are to blame, we are the ones that know better and have the knowledge to build something else. That's what I meant when I said we failed to provide a decent competitive way to share stuff.

The hardest part in my opinion is not the users experience per se, Facebook's not that great. It's getting the traction and the cool factor that's needed to beat the chicken-egg conundrum (I use FB because everybody else does).
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sorry about that. like i said before, we accidentally "launched" today. be nice?

if anyone's concerned about your AWS key, just destroy your IAM user and create a new one. that's what it was designed for.
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yes, I think photos / videos that you create are the remaining challenge, haven't found a great solution for backing it all up at a low cost.
Same guy who said:
1) Tim Cook would be fired by the end of the year (where it appears Tim Cook is still one of the best CEOs in the world right now; the biggest problem with Apple is their legacy war with Google left over from Steve Jobs)
2) IBM's problem was mistreating their US unionized employees

etc.
Could be, but considering s/he has them in a list, I took it to mean that it was three independent clauses that s/he derived from iOS. If the identity was derived from the first two, I would expect it to be phrased differently.
Your edit/addendum would have been way cooler if it read:

"Looks like it was just patched. Still managed to get a few dozen AWS keys though. I sent emails to the affected parties."

EDIT: effected-> affected (I'm not sure what's up with the snarky comment. Do most people think its inappropriate/snarky to urge proper notification?)
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Yeeah Nikil! Nice work!
No, I want to down vote comments that only serve to project a vague superiority vibe and don't add anything to the conversation.
I would have gone for something classic (and easy) -- Carl Sagan ("butt-head astronomer", to Apple) talking, rather than music.
I just signed up.. I fly Southwest all the time and this is a MAJOR pain point.. BRILLANT!!

If you do get shutdown.. will you honor the existing reservations made?
I'm interested in the service as a consumer. I keep backups of my important files in my apartment, so I consider data loss a very rare but catastrophic event. Glacier is a reasonably priced insurance for my important files.
Except, you know, computers...
You should think about sending an email to all of your users. I realize its a tough call pointing out a problem so early but it might also be a good way to garner user's trust.
> I want to promote the Apple that makes amazing products, while quashing the Apple that wants to exert utter control over everything.

Which is kind of like wanting to promote water without promoting getting wet.
I think it would suck if you were not actually familiar with the area first. I'd just do a hostel or cheap hotel or crash with friends (couchsurfing, etc.) Also, hotel rates now are a lot higher than they were in 2002-2003 (which was the middle of a tech recession).

Craigslist used to have short-term sublet inventory, but now it's pretty weak.
That seems too costly for even large businesses that don't care. When you lose data, you want it back fast. In this case, the faster you take it back the more it costs.

I wonder why they don't use S3. Is it not reliable enough? The charging infrastructure at least is simpler to figure out.
What if Windows 8 flops?
Many of these keys aren't IAM keys, or they were made with full access to the users AWS account.
Good points.

A possible approach is to consider the file system the image - consider a UI for managing a VM image and processes within that image.

The difference is then essentially deciding what is the center of the system.

The older image based language systems assume they are the center and all must pass through them - like a monolithic kernel.

Perhaps what could be explored is more transparent integration between language runtimes and file system objects.
I have actually been toying with building out something like this as well. My wife is a photographer and building something around dropbox and glacier only made sense.
in case you have issues with your AWS keys. RKearny's email:

ryan@ryankearney.com

https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f7d7b021fb488fe6a67ddb286...
Honestly, I haven't done serious high-traffic testing to see if there's a magic number for KeepAlive. However, I've had enough traffic to the server on a couple of occasions that Apache would've fallen over if KeepAlive were on at all, since you can't specify KeepAliveTimeout in increments of less than 1 second.

There are also quite a few Apache-tuning articles on the web that feature "turn off KeepAlive!" in big bold letters, not to mention previous discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2588783, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1980278, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1875848, http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/19/running-apache-on-a-memo... ...
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Oh look, a Voight-Kampff test for the interbutts.

Fun fact about people with no empathy: they are often profoundly skilled at feigning empathy when they feel they are being tested for it.
good idea.

actually, we'll just wipe them and force new ones.
Anything that uses Dropbox as the middleman scares me a bit. Dropbox scares me a bit. It silently ignores a lot of meta data , restores files with dates that aren't what the original was ( last I checked ) and has corrupted a few Mac OS X sparse bundles beyond repair.

There's a great app called Arc that handles all of Mac OS X meta data perfectly, works with the relative ease of Dropbox, and backs up to S3 at great savings. De-duplication and other "smarts" are all there.

It's sort of like a Time Machine that you can point to S3.
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Hi,
I wanted to know what some of you thought of an automated kiosk for books. Basically, for a small fee of around $2 a month, you could go to a box, select your novel, then go ahead and read it for as long as you want. I know ebooks are where it's at these days, but I just keep running into people who love and miss the feel of real books, yet find it inconvenient to go to a bookstore or library to get one book. That is why I think placing a kiosk at places people go to all the time, such as super markets, gas stations, street corners, etc, will allow people to come across these machines without having to go out of their way. They will be going to places they normally go to various times a week.

Therefore, I just wanted some feedback on the idea. Would you use it or not? The pricing point would have to be very low, which I think $2 a month is. I feel if it works for DVDs, then it can work for novels, please let let me know what you think!
Thanks!
It goes up over time. Right now it's around 500.
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I can search for email addresses too! Don't direct users to me because you failed to secure your web application.

It's nice to know someone who works at a company that handles credit card and bank payments would just post someones email address and photo. Granted this is all public since I posted on the Uservoice post, it was still unnecessary.
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I'll try!:)
Thanks ZG! :)
dude - this is a great idea. i always assume that you couldnt do this because southwest did not open their apis (aka why they are not in hipmunk, kayak, etc) how did you build it?
Cool - I'll try this
Pointing out a blog post overhyped is useful.
So, nearing GandhiCon Four, I guess (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/GandhiCon.html)
haha thanks!!! Um... I'll try, wanna help?
Comet McNaught in 2007 was very impressive - I remember driving up the hill from Byron Bay and seeing it appear very brightly ahead of me in the night sky.
Was wondering where I saw the name feross before...
Glad to be guinea pig (Didn't really think that anyone besides myself would actually use this when I made the site) thanks !
Yes open source this please.

or wait..why don't i spend an hour and write it myself.. ha
thanks! uh... I check everyone in manually?
I can see this idea used to keep out people who don't conform to groupthink. You could ask questions about abortion, god, taxes, etc.

The problem is that the questions need to be very clever to avoid giving away the site's bias (and thus the answers).
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hey everyone..i wrote a program that automated posting to this service so you will be the first one in the sites queue.

http://checkintocheckintomyflight.com/
Sure, it's too costly for large businesses, but it's not too costly for me, I just want to restore my 100 GB photo/video collection if all other backups fail, I don't care if it takes two days as long as it's all there.
Trolling is the art of feigning one or more of the following: empathy, ignorance, sincerity.

-- They are, in this way, like terrorists. The more you let them in, the greater the damage.
Unfortunately, this is not true. The OS X kernel can't deal with paths longer than MAXPATHLEN, which is defined as 1024.
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Apparently, that's one of the marks of a psychopath:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/otl8z/iama_diagnosed_p...
Is it encrypted on the client side? That's pretty much my only requirement now, since I have separated my two use cases (backups and syncing). I use encfs on Dropbox for encrypted syncing, and it works great, but I need backups encrypted on the client, and I haven't found anything great and cheap yet.
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Note that by "going to the moon" he actually means "sponsoring a robot to go to the moon"...
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This isn't a Dropbox competitor, it uses Dropbox. It's just an addon.
The idea was this. You buy a new [expensive car] and have it on loan. You pay off the loan steadily. Then, a few years down the road, you'll make it so that your loan is less than the amount of money you could sell the car for; then you sell the car. The difference is the amount of money you've made.

I did the math and you wouldn't be getting all of your money back; but at the end you made a profit and you did get to drive a rather expensive car.
Grammar mistakes aren't cool.
WePay is in no way related to IceBox. they're terrific guys; don't trash on their reputation.

i left WePay ages ago. also, our info is publicly displayed here:

http://www.iceboxpro.com/about/team

we're not a company. we're two nerds.
The thousands of pictures of my life all through college and the years since have immense value to me.
I recently switched from a 15" T61 to a 14" T430s. My T61 is now my home server and probably will be for another 5 years. I wanted to stay at 15" but the laptop would be too big. Lenovo also have lots of bezel on the new ones in addition to the decreased resolution.

They messed up the default colour profile of the 1600x900 screen - it is horrendous. I used a ColorHug to get the right profile which you can download https://plus.google.com/110166527124367568225/posts/bLg18FtS...
They're encrypted, but nothing's secure if it leaves your computer in plaintext.
The thing is that Facebook doesn’t connect me to things that matter, it just connects me to lots of things. If my best friend would have been in Mumbai, he would have let me know he was fine through other means. If some acquaintance was in Mumbai, if it weren’t for Facebook, I wouldn’t even know they were there in the first place. And I don’t want to! I mean, I really don’t feel the need to know the lives of 400 different people! I don’t have the emotional energy to actually empathise with all of them. If my brother has a kid, I’ll make sure to visit, but I really couldn’t care less about the kids of all these people I met once in a bar.
Regarding #2 -- Passbook automatically turns up the brightness on your device[1] to avoid this scenario.

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If I understand correctly, Icebox is not a direct competitor to Dropbox. If anything, it enhances the Dropbox experience, so you could argue that it could help Dropbox get more users/customers.
I used to fly SWA pretty frequently too, and now I never even bother to check their site unless I'm planning very far in advance. They are usually 30-50% more expensive than even traditional carriers on most routes originating in St. Louis.
Great article Charlie. Let me know if you actually set up the experiment. I would love to hear the results.
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Sell it. Get rid of the trademarks and maybe use the money to build a real website.
Update:
I misunderstood, I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to attack but trying to show my concern because I thought he saved some id/keys for himself. Please ignore my comment below.

--

"Still managed to get a few dozen AWS keys though"

Good for you! What a nice person you are. Please abuse more small projects like this. Even if they say they say it was "was only meant for friends to test out".

Oh I see, you just found a security hole and trying to get some reputation? Cute. Please do it by abusing the small power you found and hurting innocent users. That's really, really nice of you.

"Still managed to get a few dozen AWS keys though"

Wow. Just wow.

You sir, just ruined my night. Thank you.

Ps. I am really concerned about your company and its users. If you can do something like this, I wonder what else you could do (or doing) at your current company. I hope, I'm assuming wrong.

edit: "the" » "your". last paragraph.
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This is a little OT, but I was thinking about putting together a weekend (read: week) project that would offer a cloud service (details aren't important) but require a user to add an AWS key. The idea is that it would use the free micro instance Amazon gives a user.

The benefit I see is that customers would have total visibility into their own data, and, of course, it's very cheap to run a system like that.

I'd love to hear any opinions anybody might have about it.
> You didn't use those exact words, but it would seem the logical extension of your argument.

It's essential in a discussion like this to quote the other person directly, word for word, as I have just done.

> And to claim that any clinical study of antidepressants is corrupted for profit ...

Circle where I ever said this anywhere. Want to have an imaginary debate? Make stuff up.

> would seem to ignore the fact that the evidence you are using about anti-depressants not working comes from clinical studies.

You're confused. Comparing industry-funded studies, in particular when only those with positive outcomes were even published, to a meta-analysis by non-industry sources that gather and analyze all studies, published and unpublished, is to compare apples and oranges.
Hyper as a prefix is defined as exaggerated or excessive; I think it's extremely accurate.
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The training makes company policy crystal clear and makes it very difficult for any employee to later claim they were unaware of said policy.
The NTFS 256-character-path bit me before when I moved a deeply-nested folder from somewhere with a short path (like the root of a disk) to somewhere with a slightly longer one (like my desktop) and then went to delete it. Windows doesn't even complain in this case--it just completely ignores all attempt to delete the folder (even if you, say, put it in the trash and then empty the trash) because it can't complete the process of gathering up the list of paths to delete.

It's very confusing when you're not expecting it--you can dig into the folder and delete all the subdirectories of it that don't have overlong paths just fine, but there'll be one series of empty directories left over that just refuse to go away. Then you flatten them out from their nested configuration, and suddenly the problem goes away.
Great story, and an interesting perspective.

I don't necessarily agree with some of the judgements you are making about how society treated you. You were acting strange and should not be surprised that people were concerned about you. There are also good social reasons why society doesn't make it easy for people to live in their cars. Safety, cleanliness, property rights, collection of taxes, etc.

You say "society does not take kindly to seemingly slight deviations from normal". I don't think your experiment that summer was a slight deviation. What you did was two standard deviations away from normal. If only 0.1% of society would ever do what you did voluntarily, that by definition makes it abnormal.

That's doesn't make it bad or wrong. Just not normal.